Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor's good friend, Franklin Roosevelt, has a good Arkansas friend, Utilities Tycoon Harvey Couch, who owns an 863-mi. backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas. Last September some 400 of its engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductors walked out on strike. Demanding restoration of a wage agreement abrogated in 1933, they wanted the company to bargain jointly with their five union brotherhoods. President Peter Couch, the owner's brother, once an L. & A. fireman himself, insisted on dealing with them separately. He hired strikebreakers to keep in operation the railroad's service between Dallas, Tex., Hope...
Bill Bingham, next on the program, talked of the '22 H-Y-P football agreement, the Princeton slush fund of that year, and the rule saying no athlete could be helped through college "primarily" because of his athletic ability In closing he restated his faith in Coach Harlow and his belief in the importance of strict amateurism in athletics...
...popular issue in time to support repeal, and the majority of the press was favorably inclined. The fundamental question, whether teachers can discuss changes in society, was somehow felt on all sides. Roosevelt, Landon, Smith have all opposed teachers' oaths, and now the Massachusetts legislature seems to be approaching agreement with them...
...schemes of Chinese economic development; and officials of the Chinese Government must submit to having at their elbows Japanese advisers like those in the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. This week Ambassador Kawagoe and Foreign Minister Chang were willing to admit publicly at Nanking that they had reached no agreement of importance and at Tokyo last week Japanese Big Business was in panic. The tycoons of the Empire do not want, just now, the crushing additional tax burden of another Japanese war. Their export business, stimulated when Japan took her yen off gold (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) begun to find...
What spurred the bondholders' committee to act last week was the failure of the college authorities to live up to a re-organization agreement made last year. Enriched by the proceeds of their 1935 Eastern tour, the Galloping Gaels took in $140,680 in gate receipts last season. The gross income from football amounted to 37% of all the money the college received during the fiscal year. Athletic expenses, however, including a $7,000 salary plus 10% of the gate for Coach Slip Madigan, somehow mounted to $139,862. Skeptical, the bondholders' committee demanded the right to examine...